Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend
b. Baltimore, MD, 1948; lives and works in Ojai, California

Education
1966-72 Hood College, Frederick, MD
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
University of Texas, Austin, TX

Professional Experience
2000-04 Ojai Arts Commission, Ojai, CA
1997-03 Hollywood Art and Design Advisory Panel, Hollywood, CA
1996-00 Lead artist, Canoga Park Pedestrianscape and Madrid Theatre Project, Los Angeles, CA
1992-94 Lead artist, Hollywood Boulevard Streetscape Team, Hollywood, CA
1991-92 Hollywood Cultural Plan Committee, Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
1988-92 American Craft Council Board of Trustees
1987 City of Austin Art in Public Places Panel Member, Austin, TX
1986-87 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Overview Panel, Washington, D.C.
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowships/Crafts Juror, Washington, D.C.
1982-86 Glass Art Society, Board of Directors; President, 1984-86
1973-87 Partner/Designer, Renaissance Glass Co., Austin, TX

Selected Guest Artist/Lecturer
2005 San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design
2003/1993 California Glass Exchange, California State University, Fullerton, CA
2001 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1980 – 97 Pilchuck Glass School (fifteen years teaching), Stanwood, WA
1996 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1995/1980 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1993 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1991 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1990 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Glass Art Society Conference, Seattle, WA
1989/1985 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
1987 Ausglass Conference & Design Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Glass Art Society Conference, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Japanese Glass Conference, Tsumagoi, Japan
1984 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1983 Appalachian Center for the Crafts, Smithville, TN
1983/1980 Summer Vail Glass Symposium, Colorado Mountain College, Vail, CO
1981 Longview Art Museum, Longview, TX
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Glass Art Society Conference, Seattle, WA
1980 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1979 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

Selected Grants, Honors, Awards
2004 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Grant (exhibition catalog support), Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2001 Hauberg Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1992 Honorary Life Member of the Glass Art Society
1988/1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowships
1986 Texas Homes, Design Competition Honor Award
1983 Art-in-Architecture Competition, Veterans Administration, Dallas, TX

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005 Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
2004 Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2002-05 Ojai Studio Artists Tour, Open Studio Exhibition, Ojai, CA
2000 The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1998 Milagros Nest Gallery, Ojai, CA
1992 Kurland Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI
1990 Kurland Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Kurland Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1985 Kurland Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1883 Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
1982 Kurland Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Trinity House Gallery, Austin, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Nouvelle Nuptials, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design
2004 Hidden Treasures, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
2003 Hot for Glass! Contemporary Art from LA Collections, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Made in Ojai, Ojai Valley Museum, Ojai, CA
(IN)Visibility, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Inspired Vessel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Vitrum II, The Garage, San Diego, CA
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, William Traver Gallery, Seattle WA
2001 Hauberg Fellowship Exhibition, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 The Quality of Glass: Heat and Light, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Masters of Contemporary Glass, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Glass! Glorious Glass!, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
The Glass Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998-01 American Glass: Masters of the Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (traveling exhibition)
1998 Narration in Contemporary Glass, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
1997 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Calido! Contemporary Warm Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ (traveling exhibition).
1995 Breaking Tradition: The Art of Fine Glass, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
1993-94 Contemporary Glass, Form and Function, Finegood Art Gallery, West Hills, CA
1992-94 Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA (traveling exhibition)
Glass From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art:1962-1992 and Beyond, Morris Museum,
Morristown, NJ (traveling exhibition)
1993 Glass: In Quest of Being, Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1990-93 Art That Works, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (traveling exhibition)
1992 Twentieth International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI
New Glass, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
A Decade of Craft, Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
The Second Australian International Crafts Triennial, Design Visions, Art Gallery of Western
Australia, Perth, Western Australia
1991 Selections from the Chordokoff Collection, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Pilchuck Exhibition, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Art For Everyday, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Texas Artists, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX
1989 Contemporary Glass '89, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
Vessels, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Glass Invitational, Joan Robey Gallery, Denver, CO
World Glass Now '88, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (traveling exhibition).
Up From L.A.: A Craft Survey, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Glass as Art: Pilchuck Connections, Great American Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Pilchuck: An Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Walter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Vitrum, Wita Gardiner Gallery, San Diego, CA
New Works in Glass by Artists in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School1980-88, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1987 Thirty Years of New Glass, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Contemporary Glass, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX
Glass America 1987, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1986 George and Dorothy Saxe Collection, Oakland Museum of California and the Museum of Arts and Design,
New York, NY
Art + Function, Public Art Trust, Washington Square Building, Washington, DC
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)
1986 Perspectives in Glass: Present Tense, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Contemporary American Glass, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1984 A Texas Homecoming, Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Americans in Glass, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; International European Tour
Nine Artists in Glass, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 New Directions '83, Sebastian Moore Gallery, Denver, CO
Sculptural Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ and Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
1982 Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY and Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
International Directions in Glass Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA and Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Stinsmuehlen/Morris, Kurland Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Works Series, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1982 Texas Crafts, New Expressions, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Four Artists in Glass, Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981 Pilchuck Glass, Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA; Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
1979 Contemporary Stained Glass, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

Selected Public Collections and Commissions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, WI
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Nishida Museum, Toyoma, Japan
Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, WA
AT&T Foundation Headquarters, New York, NY
AT&T Collection, Dallas, TX
American Airlines Terminal, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, TX
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Dallas, TX
The City of Los Angeles, Canoga Park, CA
The City of Los Angeles, Hollywood, CA
Christ Church Cathedral, Ashmun/Schweppe, Houston, TX
Davis, Wright & Jones, Seattle, WA
Ojai Valley Community Hospital, Ojai, CA
Marshall Fields Corporate Collection, Chicago, IL
Voss & Partner, TV-Ateliers, Dusseldorf, Germany

Selected Publications

Bell, Robert (editor). International Directions in Glass Art (exhibition catalog for Australian national tour). Western Australia: ACI and the Art Gallery, 1982.

Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection (exhibition catalog). California: Oakland Museum of California, 1986.

Contemporary Stained Glass (exhibition catalog). Florida: Jacksonville Art Museum, 1979.

Conway, Patricia. Art for Everyday: The New Craft Movement. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1990.

Frantz, Susanne K. Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass. New York: Abrams, 1989.

Glass, In Quest of Being (exhibition catalog). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Three Rivers Arts Festival, 1993.

Herman, Lloyd E. Clearly Art, Pilchuck's Glass Legacy. Bellingham, Washington: Whatcom Museum of History and Art, 1992.

Herman, Lloyd E. Art That Works: Decorative Arts of the Eighties Crafted in America. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Jensen, Robert and Patricia Conway. Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design. New York: Crown, 1982.

Kehlmann, Robert. 20th Century Stained Glass: A New Definition. Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Shoin Ltd., 1992.

Klein, Dan. Glass, A Contemporary Art. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.

Lauria, Jo. Between Abstraction and Revelation, Richard Amend/Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Recent Works in Paint and Glass. California: Carnegie Art Museum, 2004.

Lucie-Smith, Edward and Paul J. Smith, Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical (exhibition catalog, American Craft Museum). New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1986.

Marks, Ben. "Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend and Aesthetics of Anarchy." Glass (cover image), Summer 1992.

New Glass Review. New York: Corning Museum, 1979 - 1986, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003.

Quagliata, Narcissus. "Susan Stinsmuehlen/Dissonance in Glass." American Art Glass Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1985.

Sculptural Glass: Volumes 1 and 2 (exhibition catalogs). Arizona: Tucson Museum of Art, 1983.

Stuhr, Joanne (editor). Calido!: Contemporary Warm Glass (exhibition catalog). Arizona: Tucson Museum of Art, 1997.

Texas Crafts, New Expressions (exhibition catalogue). Texas: Dallas Museum of Fine Art, 1981.

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